Hi everyone, Last night I released an early version of Barony 2.0.2 for Windows, and today I've uploaded a quick hotfix for the Windows release as well as a Linux version for 2.0.2. Mac and DRM-free builds are not here yet, but they are on their way and should be released in just a couple of days. So without further ado, here are the patch notes!

• 99% of ingame text converted to a UTF-8 standard, enabling translation to a number of non-english languages
• Most text now uses a bundled TTF font, en.tff. Additional languages can optionally be packed with their own TTF fonts, so languages like Japanese, Hungarian or Korean can use their own character sets
• players can now appraise items by shift+right-clicking an item in their inventory
• fixed Slow spell being named "Extra Healing"
• fixed logfile being rewritten when a language file is loaded
• fixed custom language files not loading when specified in configs
• fixed some additional random crashes from things like text buffer overflows
• added additional safeguards to map-gen code to prevent some crashes
• fixed game crash when failing to sustain spells
• fixed "Not a Team Player" achievement not working
• Windows hotfix: corrected "blessed" appearing in wrong location in item tooltips

As you can see, the big feature for this release is the new ability to do full localization for Barony. I'm personally quite excited about this and would love to help organize community efforts to translate the game into new languages. If you believe you can help, please check out this forum thread: http://steamcommunity.com/app/371970/discussions/0/405694115216161974/ You can also shoot me a message on Steam or email us here: contact@baronygame.com We'd love to have you help out with this! Special note for Linux users: to add TTF support to Barony we've had to add an additional dependency for libSDL2-ttf. We've thus packed the necessary .so file in with the rest of the game files, but there may be initial dependencies that we missed when we added libSDL2-ttf. If the game doesn't start, try running it from a terminal to see if it's missing any additional libraries, and then please let us know you're having trouble so we can add in the missing libraries straight away. That's all for now folks. Hope you enjoy! EDIT: As of March 15th, Mac and DRM-free builds of the game should now be available on all platforms. Thanks for your patience!

[ 2016-03-15 00:30:07 CET ] [ Original post ]